National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Mountaineering:"A solid, concise, and readable treatise on mountaineering hazards, party movement, equipment, safety, technical climbing, glacier travel, rescue, and ethics. The focus is on semi-technical multiday travel over rugged glacial terrain -- the segment of climbing where instruction is the hardest to find and most necessary." -- Backpacker"A superb, portable handbook of mountaineering basics; a veteran instructor shares the collective wisdom of one of the top outdoor schools in the country." -- Climbing"Phil Powers, a NOLS guide, has taken the school s vast experience and knowledge regarding wilderness mountaineering and placed it on the pages of his book. The descriptions are exceptionally clear and easy to understand, as are the accompanying illustrations." -- Outdoor Retailer
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